[10] Five years after the death of Aboriginal man Wayne Fella Morrison in custody in South Australia in September 2016, the use of spit hoods was banned in the state.
Morrison’s family led the state-wide campaign to establish ‘Fella’s Bill’, now extended into the National Ban Spit hoods Coalition.
[14] In Queensland, the use of spit hoods is banned in watchhouses but not in correctional facilities such as prisons and youth detention centres.
[19] Some British police chiefs have privately expressed concerns that the hoods are reminiscent of those used at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
[1] In 2016, a spit hood was used shortly prior to the death of Soleiman Faqiri in the Central East Correctional center.
[20] In 2021, 21-year old Nicous D'Andre Spring was pepper sprayed while wearing a spit hood during his illegal detainment in Bordeaux jail in Montreal and died the following day.